Posts Tagged ‘Libya’

At the EU summit this week, David Cameron claimed to have fought off fledgling attempts to allow the European Union “to have capabilities, armies, air forces and all the rest of it.” This led Fren...
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House prices could collapse as hundreds of thousands of homes become uninsurable and unsellable, according to the chief executive of one of Britain’s biggest insurance companies. Paul Evans, chief e...
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Thousands of homes could become uninsurable and unmortgageable, causing house prices to collapse, if talks about flood risks remain stuck in stalemate. Current agreements to offer household insurance ...
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The most common cause of a spiking oil price is supply shock. We may be seeing just such a phenonenon right now with the effective shut down of Libyan oil. But sometimes it's excessive demand that doe...
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Next stop for the jasmine revolution – the IMF? Easily forgotten in the carnival like atmosphere that has greeted the fall of Hosni Mubarak is that Egypt is not exactly in great shape fiscally. ...
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The greatest threat to the global economy is not the oil shock itself but the risk that central banks will commit a blunder, compounding the damage by tightening monetary policy at exactly the wrong m...
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Libya is the first major oil exporting country to be affected by the uprisings of the North African states. But although Libya is an important supplier to certain parts of Europe, it's not so much the...
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